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I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.......more

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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

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I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first a little and badly. Then bit by bit more and better. Being a...more

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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

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I seek no favor untouched by blood.

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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

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We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are distorted and destroyed, while our earth is poisoned; we can sit in our sa...more

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Another important way in which the erotic connection functions is the open and fearless underlining of my capacity for joy, in the way my body stretch...more

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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house

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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us t...more

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The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our worl...more

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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is th...more

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I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of...more

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My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those ...more

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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression hav...more